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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

July 18, 2001Tucker County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 18, 2001, 10:21 AM EDT for Tucker County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 18, 2001, 10:21 AM EDT (14:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 2001, 1:15 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Tucker County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 151 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 474 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KPBZ 181427
FFWPBZ

WVC093-181715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
1021 AM EDT WED JUL 18 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  TUCKER COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 115 PM EDT

* AT 1021 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA 
OF HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING EASTWARD ACROSS TUCKER COUNTY...ROUGHLY 
ALONG A LINE FROM ST. GEORGE EASTWARD TO THE BLACKWATER FALLS STATE 
PARK AREA.  RADAR ESTIMATES SHOW SOME AREAS ALONG THIS LINE HAVE 
ALREADY RECEIVED NEARLY TWO INCHES OF RAIN...WITH MORE PRECIPITATION 
MOVING INTO THE COUNTY FROM THE WEST.  
 

<<CALL TO ACTION>>DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE
WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW
YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Pittsburgh, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 18, 4:10 AM EDT, 6 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 4:10 AM EDT, 6 hours 11 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
410 AM EDT WED JUL 18 2001

WILL MAKE LITTLE CHANGE TO PREVIOUS FORECAST.  IT LOOKS GOOD.

WEAK BOUNDARY STRETCHED ACROSS THE AREA COULD KICK OFF SOME SHOWERS
TODAY.  SCATTERED LIGHT SHOWERS WITH VERY WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS
ON THE RADAR AT THE MOMENT.

PREVIOUS TEMPS LOOK GOOD.

CAT

FCSTID = 66
PIT   85  65  84  63 /  40  30  30  10
HLG   85  65  84  63 /  40  30  30  10
MGW   86  67  85  65 /  40  30  30  10
ZZV   86  67  85  65 /  40  30  30  10
PHD   85  65  84  63 /  40  30  30  10
FKL   82  62  80  60 /  30  30  30  10
DUJ   82  62  80  60 /  30  30  30  10
LBE   85  65  84  63 /  40  30  ,30  10
BTP   83  64  82  62 /  30  30  30  10
IDI   83  64  82  62 /  30  30  30  10
ODM   82  62  83  58 /  40  30  30  10

.PBZ...
MD...NONE.
OH...NONE.
PA...NONE.
WV...NONE.

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2001 Every flash flood warning in 2001

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.